We visited Dover last week while we were in Canterbury. Here’s one of the posters that were on the walls, from Conversations from Calais…
…beyond the Channel there is another world, connected with this Britworld. It may be too much to bear, to think of those who want to come to our country as people, but people they are, and the pain that drives them here is all too powerful.
We’ve been to other places since, a visit to Manchester yesterday, and autumnal Derwent and Howden the day before, now in the centre of an amber warning for rain, apparently based on OS Landranger map 110, to which my life always seem to return. I hope Calderdale is far enough north to be safe.
Beyond the Channel is France. Beyond death is life. The Lectionary passages for Sunday speak of resurrection. It gets hard to make easy sense out of these. The Luke reading, particularly, suggests it’s something beyond understanding in our earthbound categories.